What is personal-constitution CLAUDE.md?

A set of Claude Code instructions for a personal-constitution project: a Socratic debate tool that uses a knowledge graph, a connected map of information. It also defines how context is loaded and changed for different session types.

Use it when working on the thomastron/personal-constitution project, especially when loading context, handling different session types, or maintaining its knowledge-graph design.

It gives Claude Code consistent project rules and the right background for each kind of session, reducing repeated setup and misunderstandings.

How thomastron/personal-constitution configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to thomastron/personal-constitution. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thomastron/personal-constitution/master/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thomastron/personal-constitution

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 163 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 163 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00163	$0.00163
Opus 5.5	$0.00065	$0.00065
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00033	$0.00033
Haiku 4.5	$0.00016	$0.00016

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 368bb3db5c0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

personal-constitution CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 10 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

1mo ago Changed · -113 lines · -1,644 tokens per session 368bb3db5c0c
1mo ago Changed · +6 lines · +470 tokens per session 6ab82acac719
2mo ago First seen · 117 lines · 1,337 tokens per session scan A 6f9eae80b21e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

personal-constitution CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository thomastron/personal-constitution (0 stars, last pushed 24d ago), with no licence file. It adds 163 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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